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Math curriculum....

I am a few years away from needing a math curriculm but I was wondering....

I have heard great things about the Alpha and Omega math programs...but they are said to be christian based (I am not religous and would prefer a secular based program)....how is a math curriculm christian based? vs secular?

This may be a really stupid question...but the thought crossed my mind.

I think if you were to come across any religion in a math program it would be in the wording of math problems. Most likely word problems would be my guess. I'm sure the more heavily religious the publisher the more likely it is but so far I haven't seen anything like that in my search. I don't consider the programs that would possibly be like that anyway so I can't be sure. I'm considering the math u see program and I didn't see anything religious so far. We're secular as well.

A friend of mine uses a religious curiculum (I'm not sure which one) but the way her son learned to count to 100 was by counting the sheep from the Bible story. There were constantly references to the Bible (skip counting 2's was the Ark, word problems were about the widow's lost coins etc.) It was so distracting IMO like they were reaching.

We use Math U See and have never seen a religious reference like that.

We use a lot of religious based curriculum but math wouldn't be one and I can't see a big need. We use teaching textbooks which starts at 3rd grade (but we ended up using it for my 2nd grader). It may be too old right now and it is pricier but its phenomenonal. It teaches so that all three of my very different learners get it, love it, and retain it (there is continuing review while adding on). It takes a huge load off me.

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